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Title
Bodies of victims of Nanjing Massacre, Nanjing, China,1937
Creator
Forster, Ernest
Date Created and/or Issued
1937
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description
"Persons executed by the Japanese soldiers in various parts of the grounds of Ku Ling Temple, Nanking, after the fall of the city, December 12, 1937." Second view.
Ernest Forster, the photographer, was an American Episcopal missionary who stayed in Nanjing during the period of the Japanese occupation, 1937-1938.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 6.8 x 11.1 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m5498 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0004
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5498
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0004.jpg
Subject
War victims
General views
Time Period
1937
Place
Asia
China
Nanking
Source
YDS/RG008/265/0002/0004 [File]
Relation
Ernest and Clarissa Forster Papers; China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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